GEOGRAFIA E PLANEJAMENTO: ENTRE O PURO E O APLICADO

Abstract

The objective of this study is to present some introductory ideas about concepts concerning planning.The text is meant to motivate discussions about preliminary notions referring to the concepts in question.Geography is taken as an area of knowledge which, traditionally, turns next to the practices related to theurban and regional planning. This paper also proposes a discussion about the nature of the relationshipsand boundaries stablished between what can be called pure ou applied. It is only a start point which can,later on, amplifly the improvement of the organization of criteria, priorities and strategies which surroundplanning practices.